Time is like an arrow, time passes day by day unconsciously, the summer vacation is over, Doudou, Xiao Jiu, and Fanny The three little ones returned to school, and with their departure, John's vacation is also over.

"Independence Day" has a healthy box office decline, after earning $106 million in the first week, it earned $83.21 million in the second week, $62.23 million in the third week, $48.11 million in the fourth week, $31.21 million in the fifth week, and $20.72 million in the sixth week, for a cumulative total of $351 million in North America, temporarily ranking first in the 1995 box office charts.

The foreign box office is also very strong, Sony Pictures undertook this foreign distribution task, and at present, more than 60 countries and regions have accumulated a total of 243 million US dollars at the box office, and the global box office has reached a total of 594 million US dollars.

But this is not the final box office, foreign countries are released 20 days later than North America, and there are still many countries that have not yet been released, and there is still a lot of potential.

And although North America has been in theaters for six weeks, the potential has not been exhausted, and now there are still more than two million dollars a day, and you can stay in theaters for a while.

The current box office forecast for "Independence Day" is around $750 million to $800 million worldwide.

But whether it's $750 million or $800 million, it's a big success for a film that costs $85 million to make.

However, brilliance belongs to the past, for a director, the most important movie in his life is always the "next one", and the movies of the past are excellent, but they can only become a brilliant stroke in his resume, and no director can eat for a lifetime with a movie. Especially for a young director like John, if the next film fails, all the praise today will turn into all kinds of slander, at least short-lived, Jiang Lang will not be less talented.

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After a simple start-up press conference at the Hilton Hotel, John packed his bags and rushed to the UK with the crew.

When he came to the venue, there were many reporters with cameras on the periphery, John is no longer the unknown rookie who filmed "Stealing Love", he is now a world-famous director, and his new film is the object of attention of fans around the world.

John didn't care about these reporters, as long as these people didn't interfere with the shooting, he didn't bother to pay attention, the crew and the reporters were in a symbiotic relationship, the reporters relied on the news of the crew to support their families, and the crew relied on the communication of reporters to attract attention.

After John entered the venue, he first held a working meeting to understand the current work progress of the crew. Although John has just arrived, half of the crew members have already arrived in the UK more than two months ago to prepare, such as the set team, pyrotechnics team, props team, and assistant director.

"Larry, how's the scene set up?"

John first asked about the set team, and the set work for "Saving Private Ryan" was very heavy and time-consuming.

"Now that the beach scene has been set up, now we are setting up the small village in the last scene. ”

The movie ends with a battle scene in a small village, and in order to make the film more realistic, Larry rents an abandoned British air base, and prepares to build a small French village of World War II in the base.

"Your progress is a bit slow, speed up the time. John advised, a movie will not be shot in only one place, and sometimes it will not even be shot in only one country, just like "Saving Private Ryan", in addition to filming in the UK, John They also have to go to France and return to China to shoot, so all the scenes in each place must be filmed at one time, if there are some shots left and then come back to make up the shots, it is not only a waste of time but also a waste of money, and the ticket money of everyone in the crew is a huge amount of money.

"Okay. Larry nodded, thinking about asking the assistant director to help recruit a few more people to help after the meeting ended.

To build a small village in France in World War II, this is a complex and huge project, first to make a model of the three measurements, and then to scale the model into a physical building, and also to use the drawings of the two-dimensional model to design hidden passages and hiding places, and then build them in real life, so that you can shoot the battle scenes in the house and the street from different angles in these hidden places.

It takes half a day to build this village, so you can imagine how much time it takes to build the actual thing.

However, now that John wants to speed up the project and overcome any difficulties, Larry can only recruit a few more to help, and start work day and night.

After understanding the scenery clearly, John then asked about the pyrotechnic team, "Saving Private Ryan" has a lot of war scenes, and it is a World War II film, and the exaggerated explosion like "Independence Day" is definitely not needed.

In order to make these war scenes qualified, explosives are very important, and experiments must be carried out to create blasting explosives that are in line with the World War II period, otherwise the explosives are too strong and will bring potential safety hazards, and too weak will not achieve the effect.

"Maleer, how are your pyrotechnics crew's explosives experiments?" In order to achieve the effect and achieve safety, John asked the pyrotechnic engineer to start experimenting with the explosives filmed two months ago, and asked him and the special effects supervisor to determine the explosion point and the actor's movement route.

"We're fine with that. Malell made an OK gesture to John.

In the past two months, he has made some explosives for filming, and then conducted dozens of rehearsals with the special effects director with more than 100 soldiers and actors.

After seeing that the pyrotechnics team was fine, John looked at the prop master again and asked, "Barry, how are the props prepared?"

"It's all in place. Barry replied succinctly.

In order to collect 2,000 various weapons used in the shooting, he traveled almost all over the United Kingdom.

After learning about the work progress of the crew, John then gave the order for "Saving Private Ryan" to officially start filming the next morning.

After the meeting, John took Eve Hugo to get acquainted with the venue, the personal assistant has been in the UK for more than a month, soaking on the beach with the crew every day, and his fair face is a little tanned.

However, John felt that only in this way would the complexion be healthy, and only the face of the sick would be pale and pale.

"How's it going?

In fact, Eve Hugo's every move was told to him that the ability to be John's assistant is secondary, and the key person must be clean. So from the day Eve Hugo became John's assistant, her family, her past, and her every move now have been watched.

"It's okay, the climate is good, the food is good, and I can deal with a lot of people every day. "Eve Hugo has met a lot of people in the past month or so that she has a good personality, and everyone is very kind to her.

"That's fine. John nodded.

The two of them chatted and walked like this, and after understanding the venue about it, it was already dark, and the crew members were leaving the venue one after another to return to the hotel.

John didn't stay long, he took Eve Hugo back to the hotel, and when she got to the hotel Eve Hugo had something to eat, and after asking John if he was okay, she went back to her room, took a hot shower and changed into pajamas, and then took out a notebook and sat down at the table and began to record.

She has the habit of keeping a diary, and every day before going to bed, she will recall the events she experienced that day, and then write down important things or her own feelings, gains and losses.

Wednesday, August 16, 1995, fine

The enchantress has come from the United States.

After getting off the plane, he didn't rest, and went directly to the venue for a meeting.

Some people seem to be born with the ability to lead others, and the demon guide is undoubtedly such a person, during the whole meeting, he revealed self-confidence and non-provocative atmosphere, and with the arrival of the demon guide, many people have changed.

Vin Diesel, the big prickly head, has become a good baby.

Proud Travis Knight, humble.

Grumpy Malaire, gentle and unspeakable.

The complaining Barry cherishes words like gold.

In addition, it will officially start tomorrow, and I used to sit in front of the big screen to watch the finished film, but this time I can watch the filming of the demon director up close, and I am looking forward to it.